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There was more bad news for former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in the early hours of this morning when she returned home from losing her Parliamentary seat in Redditch to find her husband in front of the TV with his trousers round his ankles.

‘I can’t believe it,’ she fumed. ‘While I was out there receiving a real bashing at the polls, Richard was at home doing exactly the same thing.’

Jacqui Smith’s husband later issued a public apology in which he said he regretted his actions, but maintained that if the BBC persisted in showing coverage of Emily Maitlis throughout the night, they were asking for trouble.

Mrs Smith offered no comment to the media this morning as she was busy checking the expenses rules on carpet stains and flipping.